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1929 · 99999-1069 — London Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press for Maggs Bros. 1929-35. With 22 plates and more than 1000 illustrations often in red and black. LVI 633 pp.; XII 817 pp.; XLI 791 pp. Large 4to. Orig. cloth gilt Royal coat of arms on covers spines slightly faded. London Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press for Maggs Bros. 1929-35. One of 650 copies on antique paper of a total edition of 698. A catalogue raisonné of the Royal Portuguese collection. Volume I covers the period 1489-1539 volume II 1540-1569 volume III 1570-1600 and supplement 1500-1597. More than 400 books are described in detail both in English and Portuguese. With a text by Aubrey F. G. Bell "H.M. King Manuel II" and by Stanley Morison "The King and his books". This catalogue can indeed be called a "masterpiece both of composition and press-work" Barker Stanley Morison p. 335. BIBLIOGRAPHY ; London, (Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press, for) Maggs Bros. hardcover